You guys were all around in the 90s right? I'm imagining nodding heads so I'm just going to go with it. You all remember the Matt Foley "Van Down By the River" sketch from the late Chris Farley on SNL? I remember at the time I actually didn't see the sketch when it first came out but there was a buzz around it that made me want so badly to see it. . If you can imagine, it would be about a month before I even got to see with my own eyes what the big deal was. Unless you set your VCR plus to the right code from your TV guide to record SNL every Saturday you were out of luck.
What would have been considered "viral" back then was your friends, schoolmates, and coworkers. If you were a big fan and could stay up that late to watch every Saturday night it was exciting to be on the ground floor of latest comedy fad. Whether it was Adam Sandler's "Crazy Pickle Mustache" or "Celebrity Jeopardy" or "Bad Idea Jeans" or even "Colon Blow" you either were in the know or were part of the group who only heard about it and hoped you could get someone to record it so you could figure out what the big deal was. I still have a VCR tape of when Jim Carrey hosted SNL for the first time and I'm not erasing it. Even if he's been a bummer for the 15 years.
Matt Foley: http://www.hulu.com/watch/4183
Well I'm certain those times are long gone with the advent of the interlinks, with it's Googler and it's Utoob. It's just the dream of everyone who loved sketch comedy, or TV, or movies, or really any media that has or will ever happen to have instant and constant access to what everyone else is talking about. Not that they are even talking about it, just forwarding or posting it, which takes little imagination and even less time to do.
Amid the deluge of media and the buzz saturated Internet I found something that has easily been the funniest thing since the days of tuning into SNL or In Living Colour in the 90s when they always seemed to catch lightning in a bottle.
I've now watched this 15 times I bet and it still gets me to laugh out loud. Does anyone really do that much anymore when watching anything funny? I don't. The best you can get out of me is some kind of creepy chuckle if anything's funny. Check it out:
In the intro to the video, which is not on Youtube, Key and Peele talk about how they came up with the idea when they heard the name of New York Jets left tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson. His name sounds like what a mason would do to upgrade a bicycle cart and also exists in the Pantheon of "There's no way that's real" football player names which includes Atari Bigby, Barkevious Mingo, John David Booty, Baccari Rambo, and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila.
I think I've said enough. Love this video, pure genius.
Let's take a look at the power rankings for this week:
Last week seemed to be the equalizer with 2 teams undefeated so far and 2 teams defeated (0-2) with the rest of the league 1-1. See the standings below:
And the scoring totals so far:
It's manifest destiny out there for playoff spots. Lots of season left to turn things around. Good luck this week!
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